The Cultural War

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The paper discusses Vivienne Walt's article in the Time magazine; "Life on the Front Lines." The paper explains how in this article, the presence of Islamic immigrants in Europe today is represented as a cultural war between traditional European national identities and the amorphous cultural and political threat represented by immigrants to European cultural values. This paper looks at the content of the article as well as the underlying assumptions about culture, race and identity that define the article's representations of the issues involved.

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"In Vivienne Walt's article in the Time magazine, "Life on the Front Lines," the presence of Islamic immigrants in Europe today is represented as a cultural war between traditional European national identities and the amorphous cultural and political "threat" represented by immigrants to European cultural values. This essay will interrogate both the content of the article (please see attached) as well as the underlying assumptions about culture, race and identity that define the article's representations of the issues involved."

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